Nov 27
Nov 27
If you’ve spent the last month working your way through Red Dead Redemption 2‘s single-player campaign and you’re looking for more, then today is a big day. Red Dead Online, which is the online component for Red Dead Redemption 2, is launching today in beta. The hope, of course, is that Red Dead Online gives the game legs beyond its … Continue reading
Nov 27
Ralph Breaks the Internet is one of Disney’s first films to take a serious look at how digital culture has come to be shaped by our relationships to things as well as people. For the heroes of the movie, that presents a number of interesting challenges as they navigate the world wide web. and for the audience, it’s a…
Nov 27
Nov 27
NASA has shared the very first image that the InSight mission has sent back to Earth after touching down yesterday. This image shows InSight sitting on the surface of the Red Planet, soaking up some sun. The craft has sent signals back to Earth that indicate its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight. Those first signals were relayed to … Continue reading
Nov 27
A new update has arrived for Fortnite, and as always, we have a new batch of patch notes to dive into. As teased earlier in the week, this update adds two new rarities for the Pump Shotgun, which has long been one of Fortnite‘s staple weapons. On top of that, we’re also getting a new limited-time game mode that sounds … Continue reading
Nov 27
Weighing up to 7,700 pounds, Elasmotherium sibiricum—an extinct hairy rhino popularly known as the “Siberian unicorn”—was thought to have disappeared as long as 200,000 years ago. An updated fossil analysis suggests this formidable species was still around some 39,000 years ago, and that Ice Age conditions, not human…
Nov 27
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Nov 27
Waymo, the self-driving concern of Google’s parent company Alphabet, was recently granted permission to test fully driverless cars on public roads in California. It first did this in Arizona late last year. What that meant was that Waymo self-driving cars could be tested on public roads even without a safety driver behind the wheel. According to a report, Waymo has now brought back safety drivers for its autonomous cars after a couple of incidents.
According to The Information, Waymo is putting in place additional safety measures for its self-driving fleet by installing cameras to monitor driver fatigue. It’s also bringing back human safety drivers behind the wheel. This decision was reportedly made after a couple of recent traffic incidents.
Not only has it brought safety drivers back to vehicles that have been operating without them, it now has co-drivers in the cars on both daytime and night time shifts. It’s one of the ways that the company is aiming to keep safety drivers behind the wheel alert. It’s also reportedly installing cameras that are aimed at drivers’ faces to monitor if they might be dozing off while the car does its thing.
Previous reports have suggested that Waymo wants to launch its self-driving taxi service in Phoenix as early as December this year. This report about additional security precautions that it’s taking hints that this may not happen, at least not as soon as previously expected.
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